More children from kindergarten get scarlet fever in Moldovan capital

14:54 | 18.04.2019 Category: Social

Chisinau, 18 April /MOLDPRES/ – Ten children of four and five years old from a kindergarten in Botanica sector of Chisinau were hospitalised after they got sick of scarlet fever. The group that the little ones attend is quarantined.

Interviewed by agency, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Healthcare, Labour and Social Protection (MSMPS), Cristina Stratulat, said that seven of the children were already exiled and are at home, and three children remain in hospital in satisfactory condition.

She added that the children got sick early this week, and quarantine has since been introduced to the group that the little ones attend.

The municipal authorities have already carried out several controls, and special work will be done in the group.

Scarlet fever is a disease of childhood, but unlike chickenpox, rubella, measles and mumps, it is not caused by a virus, but by the beta group A beta – haemolytic bacteria. Children of the age of 03 – 10 are predisposed to it. There is no vaccine for scarlet fever. Like other contagious diseases of childhood, scarlet fever can be sick only once, as the antitoxic immunity is formed for life.

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